I got a small load of nice dry black birch today that was collateral damage from two big poplars that tipped over into the neighbor's pasture earlier this spring. I also got started on the tops of the poplar top. Should be about 2 cord of poplar when I'm done, unless I decide to get some of the clean straight trucks sawn into lumber. P.S. Notice Mama Bayerl in the back for perspective.
Looks great and love the tractor! Black birch is great - never tried tulip - don't have any here, but good shoulder wood I'm sure! Nice work! Cheers!
Tulip grows fast, splits easy, dries fast and burns faster. It makes light, very stable secondary wood for wood working, good paint-grade millwork and decent framing wood.
All of the old tobacco barns around here were made with the stuff. It makes great sheathing for a shed or shop.
Do you hunt mushrooms Mike? It's time to start looking for Morells, under the Tulip poplars is a good place.
Some of you have problems, since plenty of people can access these images. I'm using the same process for uploading to photobucket an then embedding into FHC. I wish I had better technical knowledge so I could help you all access these images, but, alas, I do not.
I really need to learn to hunt or morels! We get alot of "chicken of the woods" around here, and we innoculated some logs with chitakes a while back and they are finally producing. However, nothing beats a native morel.
